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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable%20Server%20Pooling | Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) is a computer protocol framework for management of and access to multiple, coordinated (pooled) servers. RSerPool is an IETF standard, which has been developed by the IETF RSerPool Working Group and documented in RFC 5351, RFC 5352, RFC 5353, RFC 5354, RFC 5355 and RFC 5356.
Introduc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APRS%20Calling | APRS Calling is a manual procedure for calling stations on the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) to initiate communications on another frequency, or possibly by other means. It is inspired by Digital Selective Calling, a part of the Global Maritime Distress Safety System. It also builds on existing digital proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet | A strangelet (pronounced ) is a hypothetical particle consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. An equivalent description is that a strangelet is a small fragment of strange matter, small enough to be considered a particle. The size of an object composed of strange matter cou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20ray%20visual%20phenomena | Cosmic ray visual phenomena, or light flashes (LF), also known as Astronaut's Eye, are spontaneous flashes of light visually perceived by some astronauts outside the magnetosphere of the Earth, such as during the Apollo program. While LF may be the result of actual photons of visible light being sensed by the retina, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrita%20pylotis | Hypocrita pylotis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in Honduras.
Description
Upperside: antennae black and pectinated (comb like). Tongue orange and spiral. Head, thorax, and abdomen fine mazarine blue. Anterior wings dark mazarine, having a single white bar running f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20eugenics | New eugenics, also known as liberal eugenics (a term coined by bioethicist Nicholas Agar), advocates enhancing human characteristics and capacities through the use of reproductive technology and human genetic engineering. Those who advocate new eugenics generally think selecting or altering embryos should be left to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20tracking%20%28signal%20processing%29 | In rotordynamics, order tracking is a family of signal processing tools aimed at transforming a measured signal from time domain to angular (or order) domain. These techniques are applied to asynchronously sampled signals (i.e. with a constant sample rate in Hertz) to obtain the same signal sampled at constant angular ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20performance | In software development, the programming language Java was historically considered slower than the fastest 3rd generation typed languages such as C and C++. The main reason being a different language design, where after compiling, Java programs run on a Java virtual machine (JVM) rather than directly on the computer's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawler%27s%20algorithm | Lawler's algorithm is a powerful technique for solving a variety of constrained scheduling problems. particularly single-machine scheduling. The algorithm handles any precedence constraints. It schedules a set of simultaneously arriving tasks on one processor with precedence constraints to minimize maximum tardiness or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borate | A borate is any of a range of boron oxyanions, anions containing boron and oxygen, such as orthoborate , metaborate , or tetraborate ; or any salt of such anions, such as sodium metaborate, and borax . The name also refers to esters of such anions, such as trimethyl borate .
Natural occurrence
Borate ions occur, alon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MURCS%20association | MURCS association (a variant of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome) is a very rare developmental disorder that primarily affects the reproductive and urinary systems involving MUllerian agenesis, Renal agenesis, Cervicothoracic Somite abnormalities. It affects only females.
Signs and symptoms
Genetics
Genetic he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelp%20%28software%29 | Yelp, also known as the GNOME Help Browser is the default help viewer for GNOME that allows users to access help documentation. Yelp follows the freedesktop.org help system specification and reads mallard, DocBook, man pages, info, and HTML documents. HTML is available by using XSLT to render XML documents into HTML.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeroScience | GeroScience (formerly Age; Journal of the American Aging Association) is a premier bi-monthly, international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting-edge research related to the biology of aging, pathophysiology of age-related diseases, and research on biomedical applications that impact aging and/or the pathogen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIR361 | MicroRNA 361 is a micro RNA that in humans is encoded by the MIR361 gene.
Function
microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Operators%20%28Unicode%20block%29 | Mathematical Operators is a Unicode block containing characters for mathematical, logical, and set notation.
Notably absent are the plus sign (+), greater than sign (>) and less than sign (<), due to them already appearing in the Basic Latin Unicode block, and the plus-or-minus sign (±), multiplication sign (×) and ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Science%20Institute | The Space Science Institute (SSI) in Boulder, Colorado, is a nonprofit, public-benefit corporation formed in 1992. Its purpose is to create and maintain an environment where scientific research and education programs can flourish in an integrated fashion. SSI is among the four non-profit institutes in the US cited in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graciela%20Chichilnisky | Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1944) is an Argentine American mathematical economist. She is a professor of economics at Columbia University and has expertise in climate change. She is also co-founder and former CEO of the company Global Thermostat.
Background and education
Chichilnisky was born in Buenos Aires, Argenti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihiro%20Kanamori | is a Japanese-born American mathematician. He specializes in set theory and is the author of the monograph on large cardinals, The Higher Infinite. He has written several essays on the history of mathematics, especially set theory.
Kanamori graduated from California Institute of Technology and earned a Ph.D. from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follicular%20phase | The follicular phase, also known as the preovulatory phase or proliferative phase, is the phase of the estrous cycle (or, in primates for example, the menstrual cycle) during which follicles in the ovary mature from primary follicle to a fully mature graafian follicle. It ends with ovulation. The main hormones controll... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage | In mathematics, a percentage () is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign (%), although the abbreviations pct., pct, and sometimes pc are also used. A percentage is a dimensionless number (pure number), primarily used for expressing proportions, but percent is nonet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehrbuch%20der%20Topologie | In mathematics, Lehrbuch der Topologie (German for "textbook of topology") is a book by Herbert Seifert and William Threlfall, first published in 1934 and published in an English translation in 1980. It was one of the earliest textbooks on algebraic topology, and was the standard reference on this topic for many years.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbrk | and are basic memory management system calls used in Unix and Unix-like operating systems to control the amount of memory allocated to the data segment of the process. These functions are typically called from a higher-level memory management library function such as . In the original Unix system, and were the only ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/102nd%20meridian%20east | The meridian 102° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 102nd meridian east forms a great circle with the 78th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist | A whitelist is a list or register of entities that are being provided a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition. Entities on the list will be accepted, approved and/or recognized. Whitelisting is the reverse of blacklisting, the practice of identifying entities that are denied, unrecognised, or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20mathematics | Elementary mathematics, also known as primary or secondary school mathematics, is the study of mathematics topics that are commonly taught at the primary or secondary school levels around the world. It includes a wide range of mathematical concepts and skills, including number sense, algebra, geometry, measurement, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20of%20population | In demographics, the center of population (or population center) of a region is a geographical point that describes a centerpoint of the region's population. There are several ways of defining such a "center point", leading to different geographical locations; these are often confused.
Definitions
Three commonly used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine%20bundling | Vaccine bundling is a contractual agreement offered by some pharmaceutical companies to pediatricians, that gives a discount to doctors purchasing pediatric vaccines, but only if the physicians agree to buy the majority of their vaccines from a single manufacturer. It is a form of product bundling.
Economic incentives... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softwell%20Maker | The Softwell Maker is an environment development. Designer uses visual forms and reports (WYSIWYG), business rules, and visually representing other actions using flowcharts.
Where it all began
The Maker project was born in 2002, within Freire Informática Ltda. a software factory in Bahia that operates in the public ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20Botany | Economic Botany is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers all aspects of economic botany. The editor-in-chief is Robert A. Voeks (California State University, Fullerton). The journal was established in 1947 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the New York Botanical Garden Press on be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20matrix | In the mathematical discipline of matrix theory, a Jordan matrix, named after Camille Jordan, is a block diagonal matrix over a ring (whose identities are the zero 0 and one 1), where each block along the diagonal, called a Jordan block, has the following form:
Definition
Every Jordan block is specified by its dimens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dix%20Fisher | John Dix Fisher (March 27, 1797 – March 3, 1850) was a physician and founder of Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts.
Early life
He was born in Needham, Massachusetts, the youngest of the six sons of Aaron and Lucy (Stedman) Fisher. The Fisher family was descended from Anthony Fisher, one of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUHU%20%28software%29 | Weather Underground / HeavyWeather Uploader, commonly WUHU, is a free software package for Microsoft Windows which allows users with Personal Weather Stations to contribute weather data to one of several networks, including:
Weather Underground (wunderground.com)
Citizen Weather Observer Program (also known as CWOP)
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroxide | Ambroxide, widely known by the brand name Ambroxan, is a naturally occurring terpenoid and one of the key constituents responsible for the odor of ambergris. It is an autoxidation product of ambrein. Ambroxide is used in perfumery for creating ambergris notes and as a fixative. Small amounts (< 0.01 ppm) are used as a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2012 | In molecular biology, Glycoside hydrolase family 12 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.
Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner%20Controversy | The Turner Controversy was a dispute within the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) regarding the nature of socialism instigated by party member Tony Turner. The dispute ultimately led to an exodus of members who formed the short-lived Movement for Social Integration.
When membership and activity was at a peak in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, in the area of complex analysis, Carlson's theorem is a uniqueness theorem which was discovered by Fritz David Carlson. Informally, it states that two different analytic functions which do not grow very fast at infinity can not coincide at the integers. The theorem may be obtained from the Phragmén–Lind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Content%20Alliance | The Open Content Alliance (OCA) was a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others. Scanning for the Open Content All... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenheim%E2%80%93Skolem%20theorem | In mathematical logic, the Löwenheim–Skolem theorem is a theorem on the existence and cardinality of models, named after Leopold Löwenheim and Thoralf Skolem.
The precise formulation is given below. It implies that if a countable first-order theory has an infinite model, then for every infinite cardinal number κ it ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming%20collision | A naming collision is a circumstance where two or more identifiers in a given namespace or a given scope cannot be unambiguously resolved, and such unambiguous resolution is a requirement of the underlying system.
Example: XML element names
In XML, element names can be originated and changed to reflect the type of in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Koonin | Eugene Viktorovich Koonin (Russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Ку́нин; born October 26, 1956) is a Russian-American biologist and Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). He is a recognised expert in the field of evolutionary and computational biology.
Education
Koonin gained a Master... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch%20shortening%20cycle | A stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) is an active stretch (eccentric contraction) of a muscle followed by an immediate shortening (concentric contraction) of that same muscle.
Research studies
The increased performance benefit associated with muscle contractions that take place during SSCs has been the focus of much rese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewarming%20shock | Rewarming shock (also known as rewarming collapse) has been described as a drop in blood pressure following the warming of a person who is very cold. The real cause of this rewarming shock is unknown.
There was a theoretical concern that external rewarming rather than internal rewarming may increase the risk. These co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARX%20%28operating%20system%29 | ARX was an unreleased Mach-like operating system written in Modula-2+ developed by Acorn Computers Ltd in the Acorn Research Centre (ARC) United Kingdom (UK) and later by Olivetti - which purchased Acorn - for Acorn's new Archimedes personal computers based on the ARM architecture reduced instruction set computer (RISC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllocladane | Phyllocladane is a tricyclic diterpane which is generally found in gymnosperm resins. It has a formula of C20H34 and a molecular weight of 274.4840. As a biomarker, it can be used to learn about the gymnosperm input into a hydrocarbon deposit, and about the age of the deposit in general. It indicates a terrogenous ori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paczy%C5%84ski%E2%80%93Wiita%20potential | The Paczyński–Wiita potential is an approximation of the gravitational potential around a non-rotating black hole. It was introduced by Bohdan Paczyński and Paul Wiita in 1980. The article is one of the 40 most-cited from the first 40 years of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The mathematical form of the potential... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner | WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) was a publicly searchable database that linked anonymous edits on Wikipedia to the organizations where those edits apparently originated. It did this by cross-referencing the edits with data on the owners of the associated block of IP addresses, though it did not investigat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptotropic%20hypothesis | The synaptotropic hypothesis, also called the synaptotrophic hypothesis, is a neurobiological hypothesis of neuronal growth and synapse formation. The hypothesis was first formulated by J.E. Vaughn in 1988, and remains a focus of current research efforts. The synaptotropic hypothesis proposes that input from a presynap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracellular%20parasite | Intracellular parasites are microparasites that are capable of growing and reproducing inside the cells of a host.
Types of parasites
There are two main types of intracellular parasites: Facultative and Obligate.
Facultative intracellular parasites are capable of living and reproducing in or outside of host cells. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodopirellula%20lusitana | Rhodopirellula lusitana is a bacterium from the genus of Rhodopirellula which has been isolated from the Ulva from Carreço in Portugal. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RhodeCode | RhodeCode is an open source self-hosted platform for behind-the-firewall source code management. It provides centralized control over Git, Mercurial, and Subversion repositories within an organization, with common authentication and permission management. RhodeCode allows forking, pull requests, and code reviews via a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzen%20%28computer%29 | The Blitzen was a miniaturized SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) computer system designed for NASA in the late 1980s by a team of researchers at Duke University, North Carolina State University and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. The Blitzen was composed of a control unit and a set of simple proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20integral%20convolution | In scientific visualization, line integral convolution (LIC) is a method to visualize a vector field, such as fluid motion.
Features
global method
integration-based method
texture-based method
Convolution
In signal processing this process is known as discrete convolution.
Integration-based method
It is the in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Zakalyukin | Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakalyukin (in Russian: Владимир Михайлович Закалюкин; 9 July 1951 – 30 December 2011) was a Russian mathematician known for his research on singularity theory, differential equations, and optimal control theory.
He obtained his Ph.D. at Moscow State University in 1977 (the thesis: "Lagrangian an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE | UniVBE (short for Universal VESA BIOS Extensions) is a software driver that allows DOS applications written to the VESA BIOS standard to run on almost any display device made in the last 15 years or so.
The UniVBE driver was written by SciTech Software and is also available in their product called SciTech Display Doct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20desorption%20spectroscopy | Temperature programmed desorption (TPD) is the method of observing desorbed molecules from a surface when the surface temperature is increased. When experiments are performed using well-defined surfaces of single-crystalline samples in a continuously pumped ultra-high vacuum (UHV) chamber, then this experimental techni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schematron | Schematron is a rule-based validation language for making assertions about the presence or absence of patterns in XML trees. It is a structural schema language expressed in XML using a small number of elements and XPath languages. In many implementations, the Schematron XML is processed into XSLT code for deployment a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability%20logic | Computability logic (CoL) is a research program and mathematical framework for redeveloping logic as a systematic formal theory of computability, as opposed to classical logic which is a formal theory of truth. It was introduced and so named by Giorgi Japaridze in 2003.
In classical logic, formulas represent true/fal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20black%20hole | An optical black hole is a phenomenon in which slow light is passed through a Bose–Einstein condensate that is itself spinning faster than the local speed of light within to create a vortex capable of trapping the light behind an event horizon just as a gravitational black hole would.
Unlike other black hole analogs s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20quantization | In computer graphics, color quantization or color image quantization is quantization applied to color spaces; it is a process that reduces the number of distinct colors used in an image, usually with the intention that the new image should be as visually similar as possible to the original image. Computer algorithms to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimura%20subgroup | In mathematics, the Shimura subgroup Σ(N) is a subgroup of the Jacobian of the modular curve X0(N) of level N, given by the kernel of the natural map to the Jacobian of X1(N). It is named after Goro Shimura. There is a similar subgroup Σ(N,D) associated to Shimura curves of quaternion algebras. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20graph%20theory%20of%20gelation | Random graph theory of gelation is a mathematical theory for sol–gel processes. The theory is a collection of results that generalise the Flory–Stockmayer theory, and allow identification of the gel point, gel fraction, size distribution of polymers, molar mass distribution and other characteristics for a set of many p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s%20law%20for%20gravity | In physics, Gauss's law for gravity, also known as Gauss's flux theorem for gravity, is a law of physics that is equivalent to Newton's law of universal gravitation. It is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. It states that the flux (surface integral) of the gravitational field over any closed surface is proportional to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvalency%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, polyvalency (or polyvalence, multivalency) is the property of chemical species (generally atoms or molecules) that exhibit more than one valence by forming multiple chemical bonds (Fig. 1). A bivalent species can form two bonds; a trivalent species can form three bonds; and so on.
The principle of polyv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otroeda%20cafra | Otroeda cafra is a species of moth in the tussock-moth subfamily Lymantriinae. It was first described by Dru Drury in 1782 from Sierra Leone, and is also found in Cameroon, DR Congo, Malawi, and Nigeria.
Description
Upperside. Antennae deeply pectinated and brown. Head white. Thorax and abdomen yellowish grey. Anteri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20by%20Gene | Gene by Gene is a commercial genetic testing company based in Houston, Texas. The company was owned by Bennett Greenspan and Max Blankfeld, and was the parent company of Family Tree DNA. In January of 2021, Gene by Gene was acquired by US based parent company myDNA Inc. Gene by Gene and Australia company myDNA Life Pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/159%20%28number%29 | 159 (one hundred [and] fifty-nine) is a natural number following 158 and preceding 160.
In mathematics
159 is:
the sum of 3 consecutive prime numbers: 47 + 53 + 59.
a Woodall number.
equal to the sum of the squares of the digits of its own square in base 15.
Only 5 numbers (greater than 1) have this property in base ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Linear%20Algebra%20Society | The International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) is a professional mathematical society organized to promote research and education in linear algebra, matrix theory and matrix computation. It serves the international community through conferences, publications, prizes and lectures. Membership in ILAS is open to all math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamma%20function | In mathematics, the polygamma function of order is a meromorphic function on the complex numbers defined as the th derivative of the logarithm of the gamma function:
Thus
holds where is the digamma function and is the gamma function. They are holomorphic on . At all the nonpositive integers these polygamma functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobutyl%20acetate | The chemical compound isobutyl acetate, also known as 2-methylpropyl ethanoate (IUPAC name) or β-methylpropyl acetate, is a common solvent. It is produced from the esterification of isobutanol with acetic acid. It is used as a solvent for lacquer and nitrocellulose. Like many esters it has a fruity or floral smell at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear%20regression | In statistics, nonlinear regression is a form of regression analysis in which observational data are modeled by a function which is a nonlinear combination of the model parameters and depends on one or more independent variables. The data are fitted by a method of successive approximations.
General
In nonlinear regr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman%20Frog | The Coleman Frog (also known as Cornelia Webster) is a frog statue on display at the Fredericton Region Museum in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, since 1959. It was previously owned by a man named Fred Coleman, who ran a nearby lodge in the 1880s.
Description
The frog was captured from Lake Killarney, at which t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Languages%3A%20History%20and%20Fundamentals | Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals is a book about programming languages written by Jean E. Sammet. Published in 1969, the book gives an overview of the state of the art of programming in the late 1960s, and records the history of programming languages up to that time.
The book was considered a standard w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium%20%28nuclear%20reactor%29 | Corium, also called fuel-containing material (FCM) or lava-like fuel-containing material (LFCM), is a material that is created in a nuclear reactor core during a nuclear meltdown accident. Resembling lava in consistency, it consists of a mixture of nuclear fuel, fission products, control rods, structural materials from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20ensign | A civil ensign is an ensign (maritime flag) used by civilian vessels to denote their nationality. It can be the same or different from the state ensign and the naval ensign (or war ensign). It is also known as the merchant ensign or merchant flag. Some countries have special civil ensigns for yachts, and even for speci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Signaling | Science Signaling is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is focused on mechanisms of cell communication. It is published online weekly by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The editor-in-chief is John F. Foley, the Chief Scientific Advisor is Michael B. Yaffe (Massachusetts Institute of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion%20Animal%20Parasite%20Council | The Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC, commonly pronounced "Cap-Cee") is a non-profit organization (501c3) composed of practicing veterinarians, academic veterinary parasitologists, veterinary technicians, state public health veterinarians, and staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who are ded... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graft%20hybrid | Grafting joins plant parts, forming a genetically composite organism functioning as one plant. A scion is a shoot from one plant that, after grafting, grows on the upper part of another plant. The stock receives the scion and serves as the root system for the grafted plant. Graft hybridisation refers to a form of asexu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsuccessful%20transfer | Unsuccessful transfer or abortive transfer is any bacterial DNA transfer from donor cells to recipient cells that fails to survive transduction and conjugation. In all cases, the transferred fragment could be diluted during the proliferation phase. Failures in the integration of the transferred DNA in the genetic ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxoeicosanoid | The oxoeicosanoids are nonclassic eicosanoids, derived from arachidonic acid (AA).
For example, Lipoxygenase produces 5-HETE from AA; a dehydrogenase then produces 5-oxo-eicosatetraenoic acid, an oxoeicosanoid, from 5-HETE.
They are similar to the leukotrienes in their actions, but they act via a different receptor. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausius%E2%80%93Clapeyron%20relation | The Clausius–Clapeyron relation, in chemical thermodynamics specifies the temperature dependence of pressure, most importantly vapor pressure, at a discontinuous phase transition between two phases of matter of a single constituent. It's named after Rudolf Clausius and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron. Its relevance to met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Noether | Max Noether (24 September 1844 – 13 December 1921) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the father of Emmy Noether.
Biography
Max Noether was born in Mannheim in 1844, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivacyIDEA | privacyIDEA is a two factor authentication system which is multi-tenency- and multi-instance-capable. It is opensource, written in Python and hosted at GitHub. privacyIDEA is a LinOTP's fork from 2014.
Fields of use
privacyIDEA provides an authentication backend for various kinds of applications (including SSH, VPN, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aequorin | Aequorin is a calcium-activated photoprotein isolated from the hydrozoan Aequorea victoria. Its bioluminescence was studied decades before the protein was isolated from the animal by Osamu Shimomura in 1962. In the animal, the protein occurs together with the green fluorescent protein to produce green light by resonant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic%20process%20automation | Robotic process automation (RPA) is a form of business process automation that is based on software robots (bots) or artificial intelligence (AI) agents. It is sometimes referred to as software robotics (not to be confused with robot software).
In traditional workflow automation tools, a software developer produces a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20codes | In computer science, online codes are an example of rateless erasure codes. These codes can encode a message into a number of symbols such that knowledge of any fraction of them allows one to recover the original message (with high probability). Rateless codes produce an arbitrarily large number of symbols which can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20of%20Washington | The Bird of Washington, Washington Eagle or Great Sea Eagle (Falco washingtonii, F. washingtoniensis, F. washingtonianus, or Haliaetus washingtoni) was a putative species of sea eagle which was claimed in 1826 and published by John James Audubon in his famous work, The Birds of America. It is now not recognised as a v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20module%20definition | Asynchronous module definition (AMD) is a specification for the programming language JavaScript. It defines an application programming interface (API) that defines code modules and their dependencies, and loads them asynchronously if desired. Implementations of AMD provide the following benefits:
Website performance i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20satellite%20II | Human satellite II is an exceptionally high-copy but unexplored sequence of the human genome thought of as junk DNA has a surprising ability to impact master regulators of our genome, and it goes awry in 50 percent of tumors.
Because HSAT-II DNA is normally methylated (a form of gene regulation), it remains dormant i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Mendelian%20genetics%20in%20humans | Mendelian traits behave according to the model of monogenic or simple gene inheritance in which one gene corresponds to one trait. Discrete traits (as opposed to continuously varying traits such as height) with simple Mendelian inheritance patterns are relatively rare in nature, and many of the clearest examples in hum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Management%20Bus | The Power Management Bus (PMBus) is a variant of the System Management Bus (SMBus) which is targeted at digital management of power supplies. Like SMBus, it is a relatively slow speed two wire communications protocol based on I²C. Unlike either of those standards, it defines a substantial number of domain-specific comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severo%20Ochoa | Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (; 24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".
Education and early lif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding | In causal inference, a confounder (also confounding variable, confounding factor, extraneous determinant or lurking variable) is a variable that influences both the dependent variable and independent variable, causing a spurious association. Confounding is a causal concept, and as such, cannot be described in terms of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20seam | A double seam is a canning process for sealing a tin can by mechanically interlocking the can body and a can end (or lid).
Originally, the can end was soldered or welded onto the can body after the can was filled. However, this introduced a variety of issues, such as foreign contaminants (including lead and other har... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterGeo | AlterGeo, formerly known as Wi2Geo, is a Russian IT company specializing in the development of a global hybrid positioning system which combines Wi-Fi, WiMAX, GSM, GPS, LTE, IP address and network environment approaches. It also created cross-platform location-based services Gvidi and AlterGeo, and hyperlocal banner ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20internal%20energy | The latent internal energy of a system is the internal energy a system requires to undergo a phase transition. Its value is specific to the substance or mix of substances in question. The value can also vary with temperature and pressure. Generally speaking the value is different for the type of phase change being acco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Hettinga | Robert Hettinga, is a technical and political writer with a focus on financial cryptography.
Robert was well known for his postings on the Cypherpunk and e$ and e$pam mailing list and founded the Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation (IBUC).
Robert was also one of the founders of the world's first conference on f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Emotion%20Machine | The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind is a 2006 book by cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky that elaborates and expands on Minsky's ideas as presented in his earlier book Society of Mind.
Minsky argues that emotions are different ways to think that our mind ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-pasture%20hypothesis | The wood-pasture hypothesis (also known as the Vera hypothesis and the megaherbivore theory) is a scientific hypothesis positing that open and semi-open pastures and wood-pastures formed the predominant type of landscape in post-glacial Europe, rather than the common belief of primeval forests. The hypothesis proposes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Breusch | Robert Hermann Breusch (April 2, 1907 – March 29, 1995) was a German-American number theorist, the William J. Walker Professor of Mathematics at Amherst College.
Breusch was born in Freiburg, Germany, and studied mathematics both at the University of Freiburg and the University of Berlin. Unable to secure a university... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20M.%20Frye | Shirley M. Frye (née Urban) is an American mathematics educator. She is the former president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Education and career
Frye has a bachelor's degree from Thiel College (1951) and a master's degree from Arizona State Un... |
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